We performed a comparison between HPE StoreVirtual and Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about StarWind, Nutanix, Red Hat and others in Software Defined Storage (SDS)."The initial setup is straightforward, not a complex procedure."
"Simplicity of not having to buy FC or FCoE SAN. Instead, we buy servers with their own storage."
"HPE StoreVirtual is very easy to use from the management console."
"A very flexible solution."
"StoreVirtual is that it is our software-defined solution and it's everywhere."
"It allows compute and storage to operate separately, and has the ability to take SAN nodes out of production for maintenance with little effort and zero downtime."
"Data is stored in two different places, leveraging more security and availability. Therefore, network problems are having less affect on iSCSI."
"The solution is quite stable. We haven't had any issues with glitches or bugs."
"It's mainly about the storage expansion, like in hyper-converged solutions."
"Its technical support is excellent."
"The flash ability, in terms of tiering and caching, is amazing"
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The performance, reliability, and affordability has been most valuable."
"The most valuable feature are the caching capabilities using the storage class memory."
"The most valuable feature is that there is no single point of failure."
"Hardware and disk failures are happening frequently."
"f you're doing the 10Gb adapters, SFPs don't come with it, but it doesn't say that. It might say that somewhere else, but it's not clear."
"The product is coming to end-of-life in the next three years."
"it would nice to have deduplication or compression, things that you have in some of the higher end products."
"The initial setup could be simplified to make it easier for new users."
"Product looks like it is in the end of development."
"The management aspect of the solution needs to be improved in order to make the product stronger."
"One of the areas that need improvement is the consolidated management platform, to manage all of the nodes from one place and the licensing around that."
"I think the online documentation needs a lot of work and so do the sizing tools."
"It is scalable, but only beyond two nodes. If I go for two nodes it's not scalable. I need to build a complete cluster from the beginning if I'm going for two nodes."
"Documentation management could be improved"
"The integration is not difficult because there is no GUI, but we need to use a PowerShell command. This makes it difficult to monitor and to see the components' statuses."
"More optimization could be done in terms of mirroring."
"It is difficult to get a hardware compatibility certification for the solution."
"The management tool within this solution could be improved. We would also like to be able to access services like Azure when using this solution."
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HPE StoreVirtual is ranked 13th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 50 reviews while Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is ranked 9th in Software Defined Storage (SDS) with 8 reviews. HPE StoreVirtual is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of HPE StoreVirtual writes "Using this platform, we were able to provide virtual desktops (VDI) to our end users across WAN, to help alleviate some of the problems that we’ve had with bandwidth". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct writes "The initial setup is straightforward, but the solution has strict compatibility methods". HPE StoreVirtual is most compared with VMware vSAN, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage, StarWind Virtual Tape Library and StorMagic SvSAN, whereas Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is most compared with VMware vSAN, StarWind Virtual SAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage, DataCore SANsymphony and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).
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